8

Ianto had sort of expected it, ignored it and hoped it would not happen but it had and now he sat looking at his sister as she looked around at his home for the first time.

"I kept meaning to come sooner but business takes me off world so much and I know you prefer your privacy" she said as her eyes swivelled back to him, taking in his still figure.

"I have received the gifts your habitually send, thank you for remembering my children at Christmas" Ianto said gently, forcing his hands to be still in his lap.

"Well, you remember mine" she shrugged, then she pulled a file from her bag, "I understand form Stanley that you requested a copy of GMa's will? He had trouble finding it but has finally found it in the old system. I've not looked, this was all so long ago to be bringing up."

"I am sure your father pointed that out quite adamantly while trying to block its release" Ianto said as he accepted it and she frowned as she looked at him.

"He is your father too" she scolded, "Stop talking like that."

"He is the man who supplied part of my DNA, I now know what it is to be a father and I am sorry Rhia, he was never a father to me" Ianto replied as he opened it to look at the will, "As always he cut the meat lean and I was always off-cut."

"That's not true" she sighed "He tried to include you so many times, but you were so moody."

"He constantly told me I was a disappointment, he called me a Nancy Boy and beat me if I showed any weakness. He would come to my room at night and molest me, told me I was not his son just some by-product of my mother's imaginary affairs and then when he realised I was about to come of age to discover the financial abuse he kicked me out of the family all together" Ianto finally looked up at her, seeing her stony face of denial and he shrugged.

"Believe what you want you always did" Ianto sighed, "You were, are and shall always be his queen. You choose to believe him over me, of course you do. I do not fault you, he would never hurt you, never raise a hand or slip between your sheets. It is of no matter, as you said it was all so long ago. Thank you for this, I shall have my people look at it and then start the necessary proceedings to take my assets off you both. You know the way out, you entered that way. Go back to him and tell him that he was right. He did say I would be the ruin of him one day. Tell him I am coming for him now."

"What are you talking about" she spluttered, "Da is a good man, all these lies and fake memories you have. I don't understand"

Ianto placed the memory chip he had prepared on the table between them.

"Watch. Don't watch. It is up to you. Either see the proof of his sexual deviancy, hear his admitted desires and thoughts or leave it sitting there and return to the parental that will never let you down." Ianto waved his hand at her, "I don't care. I have the time and the money for this. Tell him he has seven working days to sign everything over to me or I will come for him. I will come with the full backing of the Harkness Family as well as the might of the Agency. I do not fear him now, his threats are empty unlike mine."

"I just don't understand" she said sadly, picking up the chip and he wondered if he should have snatched it back, but it was done. She would watch the grainy footage of his father raping him, she would hear the small boy crying and begging him to stop, hear their father's cruel laughter. She would see the documents and know the empire promised to her is all ash. Maybe it is as it should be.

They seemed to always be on opposite sides of the fence.

Ianto watched her leave and then turned to find Caden standing there with his toy in his hand, his face serene, "don't worry Tadda, I love you."

"Oh Caden Bum" Ianto shone with delight as he knelt and gathered his son into his arms, "And I love you, so much I want to explode."

Caden hummed as he snuggled into that wonderfully warm embrace and then thought some more about the lady who had just been here hurting Taddy's heart bits.

She belonged to the 'shouty man' sissy had told him about. They hurt Taddy and made him feel small inside.

Caden looked at the monitors as the gates in the screen swung shut and Rhiannon's hover disappeared off the side of the screen.

Caden would remember her.

They were not welcome.

Not in his Taddy's Den.